Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 62 11 The Early Preprint System

Today's London is worthy of the title of "Fog City". Whether it is the color, smell, duration of the fog, or the type and size of the particles contained in it, it is better than the fog when Chen Muwu was studying in Beijing eight or ninety years later. The haze is much more "rich".

In "London Bamboo Branch Ci", Zhang Zuyi of the Qing Dynasty also wrote a special poem "Praise": "The yellow fog is filled with mixed black smoke, and it is rare to see the blue sky in the city. The most pity is that after the Double Ninth Festival in September, I have been in a coma until the new year."

The first thing every international student does when they come to London is to go to the Embassy of the Republic of China in the UK at 49 Portland Street to report, and Chen Muwu is no exception.

Whether it's official fees from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, or provincial fees from Jiangxi Province, they will all be transferred to the account of the embassy on a monthly basis. If you build a good relationship with the staff here, it will undoubtedly be much easier to do things in the future.

Although he said countless times before leaving, don't prepare too much luggage for himself, but in the end he still took a few big boxes across the ocean.

Naturally, he couldn't take the subway with so much luggage, so Chen Muwu had no choice but to stop a taxi at the gate of the train station and give the address of the legation.

At first, the staff who were accustomed to the London accent didn't pay much attention to such a bum from China who was still full of the atmosphere of the Republic of China, and asked for his passport and study certificate as a matter of routine.

But when he saw the Chinese and English names on the passport, he was suddenly taken aback.

Chen Muwu!
He is the Chen Muwu who has made a fuss in British newspapers recently?

The staff didn't dare to be negligent, he was afraid that he would identify the wrong person, and wanted to confirm with Chen Muwu, who was opposite, whether he had published some papers in British magazines.

After getting an affirmative reply, the staff hurriedly got up and left the table, helped to carry Chen Muwu's luggage, and welcomed him into a special office to rest.

After putting the tea in the teacup and pouring hot water, he left the office again and hurried to report the news to Zhu Zhaoxin, the biggest official in the embassy now, Chargé d'affaires ad interim.

Seeing the staff's operations, Chen Muwu, who had spent the night on the ferry and train, was completely puzzled.

what happened?
Things have to start from the beginning.

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Together with Eddington and his son-in-law Fowler, he went to Trinity College to find old Thomson, and asked to invite Chen Muwu to study at Cambridge University. After returning to his office, Rutherford wrote a letter to "Nature" magazine. communication.

There is quite a relationship between Rutherford and "Nature" Weekly. When he was the head of the Department of Physics at McGill University in Canada, his main research direction was the radioactivity of matter. In this field, France is far ahead The Curies and Becquerel.

In November 1899, Rutherford intended to submit a paper on "stimulated emission" to the Philosophical Journal.

But when the paper was finally published in the February 1900 issue of the journal, the following paragraph had to be added at the end of the paper: "In the course of publishing this paper we received the Bulletin of the French Academy of Sciences of November 2th. (Comptes Rendus), which contains a treatise by the Curies and notes by Becquerel on the subject of the emission phenomena of other substances excited by radium and polonium."

The Curies and Rutherford came up with the same results and raced to publish the paper.

The Curies are in Paris, and they are academic authorities at the same time. Basically, the papers are sent to the editorial department of the journal in the morning, and the editorial department can prepare for typesetting and printing to issue supplements in the afternoon.

However, Rutherford was soft-spoken and far away overseas. After nearly a week of drifting at sea, his paper had to go through several rounds of review by the editorial department of the journal before it could finally be published.

As a result of the research, Rutherford, who was robbed of his love by others, became more mindful after learning the lesson.

Compared with those monthly professional journals, "Nature" is published once a week and is updated more frequently.

So from then on, Rutherford began to briefly introduce the experiments and papers, and first published them in the still unknown "Nature" magazine, so as to prove the originality of his papers, so as not to be like the one in 1899 , was preempted by others.

He then sends the full version of the paper to the editorial offices of professional journals such as the Philosophical Journal and the Proceedings of Natural Science for lengthy review periods.

His approach is very similar to the arXiv preprint website in the future.

Rutherford also relied on this method to gain his reputation in the physics world step by step.

Correspondingly, he also drove the influence and sales volume of "Nature", making it not only the highest-selling scientific journal in the UK, but also one of the must-read publications for physics researchers all over the world.

Although Rutherford is known as an experimental physicist, this does not mean that he is not good at theory.

He is one of the first group of physicists in the world to accept special relativity, so he is naturally interested in Chen Muwu's second paper.

So Rutherford announced in the newsletter that this paper will be published in the March issue of "Proceedings of Natural Science", and also focused on Chen Yuyu, who went back to the past and went to the future.

The feasibility of time travel has been discussed not only in Bei Da, but also in the UK.

The newsletter, published in the journal Nature, was like a clap of thunder, sparking widespread discussion in high society salons.

The reporters on Fleet Street who had a keen sense of news rushed out after hearing the news.

After some investigation and visits, they found that the proposer of Chen Yuyu was the same person as Chen Muwu, who made Eddington, a fellow of the Royal Society, beat up the editor of the "Philosophical Journal" in anger.

After there was such a connection between the two news items, the popularity of the news was immediately fired up.

These uncrowned kings even dug up a piece of news in the "Ghai Times" in January this year that "Einstein praised Chen Muwu as the 'Ramanujan' of physics".

"The Times", "Daily Telegraph" and other influential national newspapers in the UK and even in the West quickly followed up, and all of them used the headline "Ramanujan in Physics" to challenge Chen Muwu and him. Chen Yuyu, who can travel in time, made a lot of publicity and reports.

The reporters of these newspapers stationed in the Far East even found Chen Muwu's previous work unit, the Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway Administration, but they got the news that he had resigned and left.

But these unrepentant reporters followed the clues in "Shenbao" and "Yishibao" all the way along the Jinpu line from south to north to Beijing.

In the end, they found Chen Muwu's lecture manuscript in Beijing University, which had been sorted out and urgently needed proofreading, typesetting, and publication. They bought the English copyright of this lecture manuscript at a high price, and prepared to translate it into English and send it to the UK for publication and distribution. .

Of course, Chen Muwu didn't know that the lecture royalties he gave up at the beginning would add a lot of high-end equipment to Bei University's physics laboratory.

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